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CompTIA SY0-401 Security+ Pop Quiz Online – Quiz #3

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In which of these cases would you be most likely to use tarpitting?
- Wireless network authentication
- None of the above
- IPsec encryption
- Spam filtering
- Mitigate a DDoS attack

What kind of auditing should be used to validate your user permissions?
- Operating system auditing
- Usage auditing
- Administrative auditing
- Privilege auditing
- Escalation auditing

Which of these database types is most associated with big data?
- NoSQL
- ODBC
- SQL
- MySQL
- RDBMS

Which of these would be the best description of PAP?
- Cleartext password exchange
- A symmetric encryption cipher
- An encrypted tunnel between two locations
- Used for digital signatures
- A symmetric encryption cipher

Which of these would not be considered OS hardening?
- Change the management interface credentials
- Create an IPsec tunnel
- Disable unnecessary accounts
- Require complex passwords
- Disable unnecessary services

Which of these would restrict the installation of unapproved applications on a mobile device?
- Geo-fencing
- MDM whitelisting
- Credential management
- Storage segmentation
- Device encryption

Which of these would be an advantage of PFS?
- Tape backups are stored with improved encryption
- Does not use a web server private key for encryption
- Increases the number of authentication factors
- Vulnerabilities and attacks are identified in real-time over the network
- Mitagates some types of social engineering attacks

Which of these would be categorized as a symmetric encryption cipher?
- Diffie-Hellman
- 3DES
- RSA
- HMAC
- MD5

What protocol type (TCP/UDP) and port number is commonly used for secure terminal communication?
- tcp/20
- tcp/25
- tcp/21
- tcp/22
- tcp/80

Which of these would be the most useful attack to gain access to a WPA2-PSK network?
- Perform a buffer overflow
- Perform a dictionary attack
- Exploit a cryptographic vulnerability
- Execute a database injection
- Implement a DDoS attack

What is the AIC Triad?
- Availability, Integrity, and Confidentiality
- Access, Identification, and Control
- Authentication, Initialization, and Challenge
- Accounting, Integrity, and Certification
- Application, Interconnection, and Contingency

Which of these would not be considered an authentication factor?
- Signature
- GPS location
- OS installation USB flash
- Fingerprint
- Password

How can malware perform activities on your computer that would not normally be possible with your OS permissions?
- Privilege Escalation
- Denial-of-service attack
- Man-in-the-Middle attack
- Transitive attack
- Spoofing

What of these systems would be most likely targeted on a SCADA network?
- Wireless access point
- Point of sale terminal
- Multifunction printer
- Manufacturing equipment
- SQL database server

Which of these would be most commonly associated with a protocol analyzer?
- Identify a known vulnerability traversing the network
- Filter ingress and egress traffic by port number or application type
- Restrict access to websites based on category or individual URL
- Identify the sequence number of a traffic flow
- Validate the input of a browser-based application

In which of these would you be most likely to use TACACS+?
- Encrypt all network traffic sent between two sites
- Transfer documents between file servers
- Verify index settings on a SQL database
- Authenticate login credentials
- Route traffic across redundant network links

Which of these would be the best example of a qualitative risk?
- The fine for not storing data in encrypted form is $10,000 US per incident
- The help desk staff is not properly trained on the new ERP software
- The ERP software won’t receive updates because the annual maintenance fee has not been paid
- Upgrading the firewalls to support new encryption types is not in the budget
- An Internet outage would lose $4,000 US per minute

Which of these would be the best description of Google Mail?
- IaaS
- PaaS
- Community Cloud
- Private Cloud
- SaaS

Which attack type can obtain personal information using an IVR?
- URL hijacking
- Man-in-the-middle
- Vishing
- Spoofing
- Watering hole attack

What attack type waits for a predefined event to occur?
- Man-in-the-middle
- SQL Injection
- Rootkit
- Logic bomb
- Ransomware

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